Thus we obtain delicacy; and thus, as you will perceive, our civilization, by the aid of the sentimentalists, has achieved an effective varnish.

There, certainly, to the vulgar, mind a tail is visible.

The outrageous philosopher declares vehemently that no beast of the field or the forest would own such a tail.

(His meaning is, that he discerns the sign of the animal slinking under the garb of the stately polished creature.

I have all the difficulty in the world to keep him back and let me pursue my course.) These philosophers are a bad-mannered body.